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About the Book

The Scope of the Book - English:

The purpose of this book is to let the world know that a kitchen for centuries of culinary tradition is part of the city of Ferrara and that has never gone beyond the city walls. Ferrara is located 40 km north-east of Bologna, on the fly Po, a branch of the Po River located 5 km north of the city. Ferrara appears for the first time in a document of the Lombard king Desiderius, in 753 AD but it knows its peak during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance during the reign of the Dukes of Este, in particular between the end of 1400 and the ' beginning of 1500 under Duke Ercole d'Este, one of the most important patrons of the arts in Ferrara is one of the most fervent cultural centers of Italy, arriving to host the most famous writers, poets, painters and artists.